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.Why did the European countries compeet for power in North America?
  • Economic:Gold,natural resourses,and trade
  • MY CULTURE IS BETTER.
  • Competitions for empire(Ihave more stuff!!)
What were the obstacles faced by the explorers?
  • Poor maps and navigational tools

What were the navigational tools?
  • Compass
  • Rudder
  • Sand glass

What were some more obsticles?
  • Disease
  • Starvation
  • Fear of unknown
  • Lack of adequate supplies

What were the accomplishments of explorations?
  • Exchange goods and ideas
  • Improve navigational tools and ships
  • Claimed territories(Mine,Mine,Mine!!)

What regions of North America were explored and settled by France,England,and Spain?

Spain:
Explorer:Columbus
Explored:San Salvidor(thought it was India)
Other explorer:Francisco Coronado
Explored:Southwest United States.

Spain(reasons and interaction):

Goals/Reasons:
Gold and religion.
Also the 3G's *Gold,God and,Glory*

Cultural interaction:
  • Conquered and enslaved.
  • Cristianity.
  • Diseases.

France:
Explorer:Samuel de Champlain.
Explored:Quebec(Canada).
Other explorer:Robert la Salle
Explored:Mississippi Valley
France(reasons and interaction):

Goals/Reasons:Fur for trade(beaver&Buffalo)

Interaction
  • Established trading posts.
  • Spread Christian religion.

England:
Explorer:John Cabot.
Explored:Eastern Canada. Trees/Masts
England(reasons and interaction):

Goals/Reasons:
Commerce,trading.
Religious haven,freedom.

Cultural interaction:
  • Established settlements
  • Claimed ownership of land
  • Farming techniques from First Americans(and removal)traded